104-year-old Australian scientist David Goodall speaks during a press conference in Basel, Switzerland, on Wednesday. (Georgios Kefalas/Keystone via AP)104-year-old Australian scientist David Goodall speaks during a press conference in Basel, Switzerland, on Wednesday. (Georgios Kefalas/Keystone via AP)

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David Goodall is now in Basel, Switzerland, and he'll only be there one more day: He plans to end his life via assisted suicide on Thursday. Though he welcomes death, the 104-year-old Australian botanist and ecologist hopes his legacy will soon be strengthened by the legalization of assisted suicide in countries that ban the practice outright or limit it to those with terminal illnesses. Goodall doesn't have one—he speaks of poor eyesight and mobility issues that keep him confined to a wheelchair—and thus had to fly 8,600 miles from his home in Perth to end his life at Basel's Life Circle clinic. More details and highlights from what will be Goodall's last interviews:

"I am glad to arrive," Goodall told reporters Monday at an airport in Switzerland, after a short visit with relatives in France, per the Local. The trip was made possible with $20,000 from a GoFundMe campaign. Of his newfound celebrity, he added, "I'm happy about it. People should talk about what I am doing."

Goodall tells the AP that life-ending drugs should be free and available with a doctor's prescription after middle age. The scientist, who doesn't believe in an afterlife, said he has tried to take his own life at least three times, "clumsily," per the AP. He tells CNN that his last attempt took place just a few weeks ago; he came to in a hospital.

I couldn’t care less that this egoistic geriatric wants to end his own life but I do care about his proposed legislation of free assisted suicide to others “after middle age”, which means as young as age 65, the endpoint of middle age. I see this proposal as a draconian slide down a slippery slope.

cin19

May 13, 2018 6:03 PM CDT

The key words--"he doesn't believe in an afterlife..." reveal that he probably has no belief in God, heaven or hell. But, after he kills himself, he will soon realize that this life isn't all there is. If you go unprepared, your rest of forever will be unpleasant. . .

Vox Populi

May 12, 2018 3:05 PM CDT

The word "Suicide" means self murder,if it's assisted suicide then the person assisting you is an accessory to murder. Getting others involved in Murdering You is a selfish act....No one has a "Right" to take your life.... not even YOU.